meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Words To Live By

Republicans were aghast at Clinton’s behavior, with many saying it showed he had lied and abused his power. “It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to...

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Bye Bye Habeas Corpus, We Hardly Knew Ye

The [US] Senate on Thursday approved President Bush’s plan to question and try foreign terrorism suspects before military judges — without oversight by the federal courts … some lawmakers, Republicans as well as Democrats,...

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Bringing Up The Rear

GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX RANKINGS 2006 (2005) 1: Switzerland (4) 2: Finland: (2) 3: Sweden (7) 4: Denmark (3) 5: Singapore (5) 6: United States (1) 7: Japan (10) 8: Germany (6) 9: Netherlands (11)...

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No Pain Lots Of Gain

For an aggressive trader betting other people’s money, swinging for fences entails little risk: “Eighty percent chance I make another $100 million; 20 percent chance we bomb and I get another job.” It’s no...

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Up and Down

Brian Hunter, 32, raked in an estimated US$75-million to US$100-million in 2005, good for a share of 29th spot in Trader Monthly’s annual ranking. Mr. Hunter generated US$800-million in profit for his employer, Amaranth...

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Oisíns, Wōdens, and Eshus, Oh My!

A team from Oxford University has discovered that the Celts, Britain’s indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6,000 years ago. DNA analysis reveals they...

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How Does It Feel?

New Order got $200,000 for raping Blue Monday to produce “Sunkist is the one”. It also says Blur got £500,000 ($940,533.13) from Intel for Song 2. How does it feel When a new day...

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A War That Keeps On Giving

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon...

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I Saw A Great Need…

I came across a term, “Sumata“, but when I looked it up in Wikipedia, there were no hits. A shameful state of affairs that has now been rectified. Apparently, the Nepalese also use the...